Offerings to the holy spirits

Today we made food offerings to the spirit houses in our house. We have 1..2..3.....4 spirit houses in our house. We are actually 2 families living in a 3 plots of land and we have 4 spirit houses all together in our land. There are the 4 holy spirits that protect the 4 directions; North, South, East, West, or ท่านท้าวจตุมหาราชทั้งสี่, the grand father spirit or ท่านพ่อปู่, the goddess of the two banyan trees or เจ้าแม่ไทรคู่, and the grand father and grand mother spirits or ศาล ตา ยาย. When I was young we had a big banyan tree in our land and there was once that a person asked to come into our house to pay respect to the banyan tree spirit. Someone at that time also said they saw a lady in Thai traditional costume standing in front of the banyan tree in our house. Sound spooky but I've never really actually seen her. I just see her in my mind like when you think of someone you know and you see her in your mind. Something like that.

This time mum dreamt there were 2 big elephants standing in front of the 4 holy spirits house and she said that meant it's time for us to give offerings to holy spirits in our house already. We hadn't done it for 3-4 years already. So, that's my house, very superstitious, very religious. But strange, mum always dreams of something of meaning. It might later come true or it would tell her something she's mulled over. The morning before the Tsunami hit Thailand and Southeast Asia, mum dreamt of a B-I-G waves hitting the shore and sweeping people and things away. Uhh..I know that's a bit scary.

And then about half an hour after the offering, the rain was pouring down! We had to rush out and take all the food and everything inside and get ourselves all soaked. Though it was ok since all the ritual and prayer had been done. We just had to take things inside sooner than we had planned to.

That's done. Though , later in the day I found out that MY TOSHIBA Portege R150 that I'm using is totally mute! Before it was the speakers only that didn't work and I had to use a headphone to listen to Windows welcome tone. But now everything is mute. No sound comes out in the headphone either! Gosh...apart from other problems with it...this again. I hate computer manufacturers!!! They don't care about consumers. Just churn out low quality products!!!

Think I have to go to bed now. Tomorrow is Monday and also the first day of a new school semester which means it will be jam packed from the village exit.

Good night...